Virtual Northwest Airlines is dedicated to providing a unique environment for the advancement of the virtual aviation experience.

Through our mutual efforts, vNWA partners, pilots and staff continually work to ensure that all of our members feel as part of a family of like-minded enthusiasts who work together to simulate the operations of Northwest Airlines as closely as possible by utilizing the same fleet, routes, and hub structure of the airline before it merged.

In doing this, vNWA staff endevour to provide our pilots with all the tools needed to make their experience as enjoyable and realistic as possible.

James Bishop, vNWA CEO

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NASCAR Charters Event 28

Posted by Mark Toler on 09/23/2020

Event #28 of the 2020 NASCAR Season

This week we are back out in Las Vegas for Event 28 of the 2020 NASCAR Charters Season.  Our routes will be out of our main hubs of MSP, DTW, MEM, EHAM, PANC and our NASCAR Hubs at CLT and JQF into Mc Carran Intl. (KLAS)

Our routes are numbered NWA7000 - NWA7035 and pilots can fly any route we have in our system into KLAS.  

Charters will begin Thursday September 24th through Sunday September 27th.  

As always the top 3 pilots will recieve bonus hours and the pilot with the best landing rate below -100 fpm will receive extra bonus hours.

Lets have a great turn out for Event 28 this week out in Las Vegas with some big numbers.

Retro NY Fly-in

Posted by Chris Schiessl on 09/21/2020

Bring your DC-10s, Boeing 767-200s, and your Connies to New York LaGuardia (LGA) as we host the second round of the Retro New York Fly-in!

Route information:

If you will be flying an aircraft into/out of N90 that meets any of the following navigational/equipment criteria, please file “RQST TMU APVL” in the “Remarks” section of your flight plan and expect TMU to process your flight plan before you depart (the alternative being controllers passing along your flight plan while you sit on the ground, waiting for TMU to find it1):

• 1. AIRAC cycle prior to 1806 (June 2018)
• 2. Non-RNAV capable (any suffix other than /C /G /I /L /S /V /Y /Z)
• 3. Unable to find ANY of the N90 departure fixes in your FMC/FMS database
• (N90 Preferred Departure Gate Diagram)
• 4. Unable to fly ANY preferred or previously filed flight plan
• (utilizing PRD and FlightAware IFR Route Analyzer)
• 5. Plan on filing a known historical flight plan route which cannot be found in current flight plan databases.

By filing this note in your remarks, TMU can silently approve flight plan amendment requests and get you off the ground more quickly!

Parking information:

If you know your parking location, please include the following information in your “Remarks” section of your flight plan:

• Terminal
• Taxiway entrance to enter the ramp.

If you do not know your parking location, after landing, exit the runway immediately. During busy periods, it is more important to CLEAR THE RUNWAY than it is to receive taxi instructions.

Open Mic Night!

Posted by Chris Schiessl on 09/21/2020

Open Mic Night! No featured fields, just those who want to staff up their ARTCCs and airports may do so. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you may see the entire US online!

South Sat Sunday: KMDW, KARR,

Posted by Chris Schiessl on 09/21/2020

Fly into the south satellite airports of C90. Fly your Falcon into DPA, bring the 737 into MDW, or the Archer into ARR. All traffic is welcome! Featuring KMDW, KARR, KDPA, and KGYY. Pilot briefing to come!

Executive Flight Schedules

Posted by Mark Toler on 07/28/2020

vNWA EXECUTIVE FLIGHT SCHEDULES

For anyone that would like to fly along with vNWA Executives, there are now tentative published schedules of vNWA Executives individual scheduled flights.  These flights and times are tentative and subject to change.  Feel free to contact the Executive for specifics if needed by clicking on the link below (KSTP Hub Website) or visit the KSTP Hub Website from the Hubs Tab at the top of the Homepage of the Website, to see when your Executives may be flying and you can join them.

So check out the schedules and fly with us .

KSTP Hub Website

(click on above link)

(updated 9/23/20)

vNWA Executives

Mark Toler - NWA1964  (9/23-24/20) 

 Chris Schiessl - NWA1223 (TBA) 

Robbie Suwary - NWA1999 (TBA)

vNWA Hub Tour 2012-2019

Posted by James Bishop on 01/30/2020

 vNWA Hub Tour 2012-2020

 Get to know your fellow pilots, and their airspace. There is no specified time to complete this tour, have fun with it and see what you get upon completion.  Click the Operations tab at the top of the homepage and click on "Tours" to get started. 

Be sure to leave a comment indicating a leg of the Tour when filing your PIREP so we can credit you with each leg of the Tour.
 

PANC Cargo Operations

Posted by Mark Toler on 11/27/2019

"ATTENTION vNWA PILOTS - PANC IS OPEN FOR PILOTS "